This is an intensive, on-camera master scene study class offered to a small group of experienced actors. Each actor will learn and then explore tested techniques that will produce truthful, moment-to-moment work with consistency. Richard’s teaching philosophy and approach empowers actors to trust their talent, to stay present and confident as they create their own repeatable choices.

We will focus on advanced script analysis using film scenes to create multi-layered, three-dimensional characters.

Features of the class include (but are certainly not limited to):

• Exercises to deepen and expand the actors’ imagination.
• Useful techniques to increase relaxation, concentration and deepen the actors’ sensory/emotional work.
• In-depth analysis of a multi-scene role.
• How to bring the skills of this course into the audition
  
  

The class is limited to eight actors so that thorough and in-depth coaching can be accomplished. We will meet in 5-hour sessions twice a month, capped with a final weekend intensive.

All actors must have legitimate on camera experience and/or a sophisticated background in theater training (recommended experience: co-star work in film/television and/or 10 substantial theater credits). Final admission to the class may require resume/reel review by instructor and/or arvold.education.

The cost of the course is $960 total ($160/session). Students may choose to split the course cost into two payments, with the initial payment of $500 due to confirm enrollment, and the final payment of $460 due in mid-July.

Questions? Please email info@arvold.com.

ABOUT RICHARD WARNER:

Richard is a (may we humbly say brilliant!) core member of arvold.education; you may have seen him on our arvold YouTube channel, or attended one of the intensives he co-teaches with Erica. That's just the tip of the iceberg:

While working as an actor in New York City, Richard studied with Michael Howard and performed at Manhattan Theatre Club, Chelsea Theatre Center, W.P.A. Theater and Douglas Fairbanks Theater. He has acted regionally in over one hundred roles in many prestigious regional theaters. As a director, he has staged Hamlet, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie, Hedda Gabler, Hay Fever, A Raisin in the Sun, Cloud Nine, Fuddy Meers, The Foreigner, A Man for All Seasons, Misalliance, Suddenly Last Summer, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Laramie Project, Lend Me a Tenor, Lost in Yonkers, Driving Miss Daisy, The Last Night of Ballyhoo and True West.

Film credits include: Homer Benson in Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln (2011); Dr. Ezra Abbott in Ridley Scott’s Killing Lincoln (2012); Chester Bowles in National Geographic Channel’s Killing Kennedy (2013); Vic LeClue in Patriot Son, winner of the 1998 LA Film Fest’s independent short category and selected to show at the Telluride Festival. In 2014 Richard played the lead opposite Sarah Drew (Grey’s Anatomy) in the short film, Waking Marshall Walker, a selection at over 40 film festivals. This past year he appeared in Farewell Old Stringy in the leading role of Davey. He created the role of L.P. Everett in the episode, “The 20% Solution” for the television program, Homicide, Life on the Street. Richard has been teaching acting at the University of Virginia for 30 years where he has had the honor of coaching many talented actors, including Tina Fey, Ben McKenzie (Gotham, The O.C.), Sean Patrick Thomas (Cruel Intensions, Barbershop), Jason George (Grey’s Anatomy, Mistresses), Sarah Drew (Grey’s Anatomy, Everwood) and Emily Swallow (Supernatural, The Mentalist). He received UVa’s Outstanding Teacher Award in 1991, the Mayo Distinguished Teaching Professorship in 1998 and was selected as an inaugural member of the University Academy of Teaching in 2011. He is a member of AEA and SAG-AFTRA. www.richard-warner.com

FAQs

What happens if I need to drop out of class? Is there a refund policy?

For individual classes missed within a full series, tuition is non-refundable. For a special event or for a full series of classes, tuition may be refundable on a case by case basis if a refund is requested at least three weeks in advance of the event or first class. Please contact info@arvold.com for more information.